Books
Title: Ship It! A Practical Guide to Sucessful Software ProjectsAuthor(s): Jared Richardson, William Gwaltney Jr.ISBN: 0-9745140-4-7Publisher: Pragmatic BookshelfFirst printing: May 2005Are you sick and tired of eating cold pizza trying to get that build out of the door? Are you trying of working the weekends instead of spending time with your family? Frustrated because the projects seems like it will be never finsiehd? If you answered yes to one of these questions then you should read "Ship...
"75 ways to improve Your C# and VB.NET Programs", that's what is written on the top of the cover of the book .NET Gotchas by Venkat Subramaniam. This book was first published in May 2005 by O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-00909-7. Click here for the Table of Contents.The author has taken 75 gotchas and documented them with code samples, explanation and if relevant work-arounds. What is a gotcha? According to the definition in Wikipedia a gotcha is a feature of a system, a program or...
This review is about the book ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips. Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc on end May 2006. 7 MVP's decided to put their knowledge together and create this book. The MVP's are: David Yack, Joe Mayo, Scott Hanselman, Fredrik Normén, Dan Wahlin, J. Ambrose Little, Jonathan D. Goodyear. If you are a ASP.NET developer you have propably already heard of these guys and if you haven't you need to take your work more seriously.This book is for experienced ASP.NET...
A couple of months ago, two to be exactly, I finished reading the book "Test-Driven Development in Microsoft.NET". This book was first published by Microsoft Press early 2004 which is immediatly the biggest con of the book. The authors James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov did a great job explaining the basics of TDD (and I expected a lot more on TDD <disappointed/>), Refactoring, the NUnit framework, the difference between Programmer and Customer Tests (using the FIT framework)...
A couple of months ago I have read the book "Visual Studio Hacks" by James Avery but I have never taken the time to write a small review so here it is. James is a .NET Architect and has previously written several books for Microsoft press and Wrox and has published several articles on the MSDN Magazin and ASPToday. In his book Visual Studio Hacks he has collected 100 tips and tricks from several Visual Studio experts that show you how to make the Visual Studio IDE even more powerful than...
This book is the successor of The Pragmatic Programmer. The authors, Venkat Subrmamaniam (.NET Gotchas) and Andy Hunt continue on the tips given in the book The Pragmatic Programmer. They have collected the habits, ideas and approaches of successful agile software developers and created this book full op tips. Although the title talks about the practices of an Agile Developer this does not mean that you have to be for example an Extreme Programming (XP) practicioner to use these tips. I definitely...
I have doing a lot of reading lately. I have finished 3 books and I started reading the 4th book since my last book review. The book "The Pragmatic Programmer - From Journeyman to Master" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas is a must-read book for those serious developers that want to improve their programming skills. This book contains a whole bunch of very useful tips and the do's and don'ts of programming. If you want to spend your money on a book this is the one and if you don't...